Chapter 4:

Father Levi x Original Character

Ha! Isn't Ensrahi and Levi cute? Finally, the two are together at last, and now the true fun begins! I will get straight to the chase, this is where Levi begins to learn a lot about Ensrahi, and about her fears. So be prepared to get some feels in this chapter okay? But a little something, I've been hanging out with a good friend of mine, and he's always supporting me in my stories. He's actually the one who helped me figure out the ending in the last story! So if you guys ever cross an author on this site by the name of Johnny Ringo, be sure to tell him thank you because Rahi wouldn't exist without him. But ANYWAYS! As always, I don't own anything from SnK and I thought this would be a cute idea. J

-Levi and Ensrahi-

Rahi ran through the halls of this large HQ, wondering where her father was. This place was so huge, she had no idea where she was by this point. Cadets watched as a little girl in a boy's clothes and long raven hair run down the halls confused, until finally she found who she was looking for.
"Daddy!" she cried, as Levi turned around to have a little girl tackle him. Levi grunted, as he was caught off guard and barely caught Rahi as she threw herself at him.
"Damnit child, what did I say about doing that? I'm busy right now, what do you want?" he asked, kneeling down to face her. Rahi was searching herself for what she wanted, before she realized that she had dropped what she was looking for.
"I can't find it…" She whimpered her eyes beginning to tear up, as Levi sighed and kissed her forehead. Cadets stared as jaws dropped, but not before Levi growled at them and they scurried away. Rahi sniffled, wiping away her tears with the back of her hand. Levi grumbled something about being a messy brat as he took out a rag from his pocket and wiped her tears away and her hands, holding up the rag to her nose as she blew in it. Levi grimaced at the mess, and tossed the rag at a nearby cadet.
"Throw that away for me." Levi ordered as he picked up Rahi, and the cadet scurried off. Levi was originally walking to the mess hall when he looked outside in to see rain pouring down hard.
"Looks like tonight is going to be heavy. And Ensrahi, what were you doing out so late in the dark?" He murmured, as Rahi looked out the window, wondering what Levi meant by that.
"I wanted to get something for you that only came out at night! But it seemed that it slipped through my fingers yet again…" Rahi looked down to see that Levi was carrying that black book again, as her eyes gleamed.
"Can I read the book again daddy?" Rahi asked happily, as Levi sighed and kicked open the door to the mess hall. Rahi was momentarily distracted as she saw the Eren boy in the corner and yelped as Levi suddenly put her down. He glanced down to see Ensrahi looking at the Titan brat, Levi smiled lightly to himself and kicked her in the back lightly causing her to stumble in the direction of Eren.
"Stay with him Rahi, I'm going to get us something to eat." He ordered, as Rahi rubbed her back and pouted to him playfully. Levi held back laughter on the inside with his normal cold face as he walked off to the kitchen. Rahi looked up to see Eren looming over her, and suddenly a loud noise lit up the room. Rahi's eyes slowly widened as Eren turned from a normal boy into a long haired titan faced man. She screamed in terror and fell back on her butt scurrying away from him as Mikasa was next to Eren as he jumped back too, wondering why the little girl from before was screaming but not before she closed her mouth with her hands and ran out of the mess hall out of instinct.

Levi walked out of the kitchen talking to Hanji and Erwin when everyone was staring at him with a cold glare. Levi was confused until the lightning flashed again and a small scream could be heard down the hall. He growled in frustration as he set the food down on a nearby table and walked out of the mess hall. As lightning flashed, most of the lights went out as a window opened and blew out all the candles, causing the shadows to look like large titans. Levi than instantly understood what happened, and regretted ever leaving her alone in such a storm, and every lightning flash he heard a small whimper in the giant castle somewhere. 'Damn these halls and their ability to echo everything' Levi thought as he was running through the halls to find Rahi at this point. He kept hearing 'Flash-boom-cry' as his footsteps began to pick up pace. Levi hated the fact that Rahi was smart and could hide well from experience, and he only hoped with a huge feeling of dread that she didn't go back to that state of memory loss again.

'She just needs to adjust to everything without the thought of survival instinct. A child shouldn't have to think about how to survive at such a young age.' Erwin's words echoed in his head, as Levi picked up pace even more before stopping hearing small sobs coming from a closet. Then there was a flash, and a cry louder from the same place… Levi's eye softened immensely as he unbuttoned his cloak from around his shoulders. He let another flash pass by as another whimper escaped her lips. Levi than slowly opened the closet to see Rahi in the far corner of it, mops and brooms creating a solace of what might protect her from giant hands.

Levi knelt down slowly, and began to move broom after mop after broom slowly, as Rahi's cries became more potent to his heart. All he wanted to do was hug her, and make sure that she wasn't scared of anything. Levi noted in the back of his mind to find her before any thunder storm. When he removed the last broom, Rahi looked up at his looming figure as another flash illuminated the closet, illuminating his face as his blue eyes gleamed in the darkness. Rahi knew instantly who it was as a wave of relaxation swept through her being and hugged her father tightly, sobbing on his shirt. Levi sighed in relief as he put his cape around her, and Rahi hugged it around her tightly.
"Come on Ensrahi, do you want to go back to my office?" he asked politely, as Rahi nodded, trying to stop her sniffling and crying. Levi wiped away her tears with his hands, not caring about the grime momentarily; picking up Ensrahi, walking back to his office. He made sure to pull the cowl over her head so she couldn't see the flash and covered her ear with one hand while pushing her head lightly into his chest so she couldn't hear the deafening boom of the thunder.

"How is your head feeling?" Levi asked as they sat in his office on the couch. He had shut all the window curtains, and lit all the candles, making sure that the room was brightly lit… or as brightly lit as about 3 candles could allow it. Levi had pulled over a table and poured them some black tea.
"Dad, it's easier to put the shifter over the cup as you pour… less leaves that way." Rahi murmured, as she took the strainer over his cup and poured him a cup of 'proper' tea. Levi smiled, and nuzzled into her hair, Rahi wasn't used to seeing such a calm happy Levi, much less one that actually seemed to more happier than normal, which was really saying something.
"You okay Daddy? You're usually not this happy." Rahi asked, as Levi sighed and ruffled her hair as he crossed his legs and took a drink of his tea. It was surprisingly stronger that he expected as he nearly choked on the bitter taste. Rahi laughed lightly, as Levi cursed and grumbled as he put the tea back down.
"What's so different about this damn tea?" he grumbled, trying to figure out just how Rahi had made the tea so damn good last time.
"Daddy, you didn't put any sugar in it." Rahi laughed harder as she got up, and by the light of the candle, showed Levi how to make her version of black tea. Levi watched with soft eyes as his daughter poured him a better cup of tea after downing the liquid from his first attempt, she even wiped off the part that her lips touched, knowing exactly how he liked his cups as well. Levi then took a sip, savoring the sweet yet bitter balance of a good cup of black tea. Levi always made her drink his strong tea all the time when her sweet tea was much better than what he could make. He felt a little back for making her drink something so grotesque after he tasted this, and sighed. He'd have to have Rahi make him tea more often.
"I'll only make you tea when you're feeling down, okay Daddy?" Rahi smiled as Levi gave out a 'tch'.
"Why won't you make it all the damn time?"
"Because than it won't be as special or uplifting." Rahi smiled, sitting back down on the couch fingering her own cup of tea happily. With her long raven hair and blue eyes, Levi wouldn't doubt it if she actually was his kid, but he knew that she remembered vaguely about her own father. Levi only wished he could have met the parents before meeting the child, and promised them that she'd be in good care… better yet, he wished that she had joined the Survey Corps on her own accord, and not what fate had dealt her with. Levi sighed, and hit Rahi on the head with his black book.
"You're gonna be awake all night after all of this damn caffeine. Don't go bouncing off all the walls now." Levi warned as he held his cup and Rahi smiled at him, her blue eyes glowing in the darkness like his.

"I can't be hyper Daddy, when I barely had any energy to begin with."